Soviet Spy Alex George, Devin Carroll, Evan Joyce
Richard Sorge ("Ramsay") October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944
Рихард Зорге
Richard Sorge in 1940
Background: Richard Sorge was a spy for the U.S.S.R. during WWII. His codename was "Ramsay". Before the war, he joined the Nazis and became a German journalist in Tokyo, Japan. There, he gave information, such as the Anti-Comintern Pact (which was signed by Germany and Japan in 1936 against the Soviet Union) to the Soviet Union. He also mentioned a launch date on Operation Barbarossa, Germany's plan to invade the Soviet Union. He also sent a message that said the Japanese were not going to invade Russia. Another message said that Japan would attack the Soviet Union when the Germans captured any Russian city on the Volga River. As the war went on, Japan began to suspect a spy ring. Richard Sorge was arrested in October 1941. He was held in Sugamo Prison (a prison in Tokyo) until he was executed on November 7, 1944.
GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye, or Main Intelligence Directorate) -Russia's foreign intelligence agency which Sorge worked for.
Richard Sorge
Sugamo Prison, Tokyo Japan. In 1941, Sorge was arrested and imprisoned here until he was executed by hanging in 1943.
Another photo of Sugamo Prison.
Flag of the U.S.S.R.. Sorge was a spy for the Soviet Union.
Richard Sorge ("Ramsay") October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944
Рихард Зорге
Background: Richard Sorge was a spy for the U.S.S.R. during WWII. His codename was "Ramsay". Before the war, he joined the Nazis and became a German journalist in Tokyo, Japan. There, he gave information, such as the Anti-Comintern Pact (which was signed by Germany and Japan in 1936 against the Soviet Union) to the Soviet Union. He also mentioned a launch date on Operation Barbarossa, Germany's plan to invade the Soviet Union. He also sent a message that said the Japanese were not going to invade Russia. Another message said that Japan would attack the Soviet Union when the Germans captured any Russian city on the Volga River. As the war went on, Japan began to suspect a spy ring. Richard Sorge was arrested in October 1941. He was held in Sugamo Prison (a prison in Tokyo) until he was executed on November 7, 1944.